[PATCH 00/11] Add basic flow support for corenic firmware

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 11/7/2023 5:04 PM, Patrick Robb wrote:
> Sorry, now I understand what is causing confusion. When a retest is
> requested, that retest is done on the original dpdk artifact we created
> for the patchseries. We don't pull again, re-apply, and then rerun the
> testing. I think that is the behavior you were expecting, Ferruh. 
> 

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for clarification, yes that was my expectation.

> We have discussed whether this is an important option to support in
> future iterations of the retest-request feature. One idea is to add
> another option in the retest request schema which allows for the
> requester to indicate they want the patch re-applied onto the newer
> branch, and testing rerun with that new dpdk. It's good to see that this
> is a use case which would see application. Will be aiming to add this
> support in the future.  
>

I am also not sure if this is the common usecase, lets record the need,
we can decide what to support based on it.


And as a generic approach, what about following syntax:
Recheck-request,attribute=value: ...

And for above case, attribute can be "pull=true" ...